Stephen May
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3780607 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Stephen May |
| PRENOMES | Stephen |
| SOBRENOME | May |
| ASSINATURA | MAY S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4490-5093 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 528 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 7 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Linguistic Justice and the Politics of English(es)
In this afterword, I focus on two key contributions that this special issue provides for ongoing discussions of linguistic justice in relation to the internationalization of English. The first is its attempt to address previously reductionist accounts of linguistic justice in political theory, which construct languages only in relation to their communicative value, thus stripping them of their identity functions. This contributes in turn to an of…
Multilingualism and Language Rights
In this entry, I chart the five principal concerns underpinning advocacy for minority language rights (MLR). The first concern addresses the parlous nature of many of the world's languages, particularly Indigenous languages, via exponential processes of language shift and loss. The second concern addresses the sociohistorical and sociopolitical processes that have resulted in certain languages, and their speakers, becoming “minoritized” in the fi…
Between policy and classroom reality
This study investigates teachers’ subjective perspectives on the implementation of the Dual Language Program (DLP) in Malaysian primary schools using Q methodology. Drawing on Q-sorts from 15 DLP teachers, the study systematically identifies shared viewpoints regarding bilingual instruction, teacher readiness, and institutional support. Factor analysis revealed four distinct teacher subjectivities: DLP Pragmatists, Student-Centred, Context-Respon…
English-medium instruction (EMI) language policy and implementation in China’s higher education system
This review explores the English-medium instruction (EMI) language policy and implementation in China’s higher education (HE) system over the last two decades. It traces the rise, promotion, and "turn" of the EMI system. It points out the limitations in EMI language policies and implementation in China's conventional universities. Drawing on a research framework informed primarily by Spolsky (Citation2004) and Liddicoat and Taylor-Leech (Citation…
Popular culture, language learning, and (de)motivation
This study examines the motivational and demotivational factors influencing Australian and New Zealand university students learning Korean as a foreign language (KFL). It focuses on KFL learners’ experiences and the role of Korean popular culture in their language learning journey. The findings of the study reveal that these KFL learners are driven by integrative and intrinsic motivations, notably their engagement with Korean popular culture and …
Korean language learners’ motivation, remotivation, and demotivation
Despite the growing number of university students learning Korean as a foreign language (KFL), only a relatively small number of studies on motivation internationally have been conducted with KFL students. Drawing on survey and interview data, this mixed-methods study explores the motivation, remotivation, and demotivation of KFL students (n = 191) in Australia and New Zealand universities. KFL learners in this study reported a higher level of in…
Linguistic discrimination in higher education
As with many other countries, South Korea is increasingly ethnically and linguistically diverse – the result of changing patterns of migration and transmigration in a globalised world. However, despite these developments, South Korea retains a strong emphasis on public linguistic homogeneity in standard (Seoul-based) Korean, its national language, and related linguistic hierarchies of prestige that privilege this standard at the expense of other …
The ideological underpinnings in university English textbooks in China
China has had an ambivalent policy for the learning and teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) over much of its history. The explicit and implicit implementation of language policy has had a significant impact on the content of EFL textbooks and the ideologies underlying them. However, studies exploring such ideologies remain sensitive areas in which little work has been done to date. By applying a combination of critical discourse analy…
Linguistic racism
This special issue of Ethnicities focuses on the phenomenon of linguistic racism. Linguistic racism constitutes the intersection of language, race/ism, and in/equality, as seen in racialized discourses on the relative status of languages and bi/multilingual language use, particularly as these are directed toward non-dominant language speakers. The theoretical framings underpinning the contributions in this issue draw on sociological discussions o…
New Zealand is “racist as f**k
A key feature of the confluence of modern nation-state formation and colonization has been the marginalization and denigration of minoritized language varieties, particularly Indigenous languages, over time. Indigenous languages have been actively proscribed in public language domains, such as education, leading to their inevitable shift and loss, in settler-colonial contexts worldwide. This process of linguistic hierarchization has long been rec…
Critical Ethnography and Education
In this book, Fitzpatrick and May make the case for a reimagined approach to critical ethnography in education. Working with an expansive understanding of critical, they argue that many researchers already do the kind of critical ethnography suggested in this book, whether they call their studies critical or not. Drawing on a wide range of educational studies, the authors demonstrate that a methodology that is lived, embodied, and personal—and fu…
Superdiversity and its explanatory limits
Superdiversity is a key term that has taken hold in macro sociolinguistic commentary over the last decade. It has been used to explore the increasing linguistic diversity, particularly in major urban centres in the West, brought about by changing patterns of migration and transmigration. Within sociolinguistics, this has led to an increasing focus on the complex multilingualism that can now be found in diverse urban contexts. The focus on multili…
Dominance of Anglo-American cultural representations in university English textbooks in China
A number of studies have reported the cultural representations in English textbooks in many contexts, especially those in Asia. However, these studies relied on a small data set and the findings suffered severe limitations. To overcome such shortcomings, we self-built a corpus that has 40 volumes/books of over one million words to examine the cultural constellations evident in 10 sets of university English textbooks in China. With such a large co…
Rethinking the principle of linguistic homogeneity in the age of superdiversity
This chapter discusses how the principle of linguistic homogeneity, articulated by Herder and his German Romantic colleagues, has subsequently become a defining characteristic of modern nation-state organization. The chapter explores the consequences of linguistic homogeneity and a related preoccupation with public monolingualism for linguistic minority groups, resulting, more often than not, in their linguistic—as well as wider social and politi…
Implementing English-medium instruction (EMI) in China
This paper reports on a classroom-based investigation into a tertiary English-medium instruction (EMI) programme in China, with a focus on subject teachers’ perceptions and practices in EMI and students’ motivation and needs in English learning. Given a lacuna in existing EMI research, it examined how EMI instruction was delivered by subject teachers and how English learning should be facilitated through adjunct ESP courses when participants’ Eng…
Negotiating the Multilingual Turn in SLA
To everything (Turn, Turn, Turn) There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn) ... The Byrds IN 2011, THE PROMINENT EUROPEAN political theorist, Van Parijs, published Linguistic justice for Europe and for the world (Van Parijs, 2011). The book was a culmination of over a decade's work on the prospects, and limits, of justice for linguistic minorities, within a normative political theory framework. It was greeted within political theory as an important dev…
Understanding novice teachers’ perceived challenges and needs as a prerequisite for English curriculum innovation
Teaching English for specific purposes (ESP) is widely acknowledged as highly demanding for teachers. Currently in China itself, shifting the curriculum focus from General English to ESP in the provision of English language education is regarded as a curriculum innovation. And yet, scarcely any research has probed into the challenges facing novice ESP teachers, along with their related needs for institutional support, in order to implement such a…
National and ethnic minorities
This chapter explores whether modern nation-states can or should formally accommodate the language varieties spoken by national and ethnic minorities within their borders and, if so, in what contexts and/or to what extent? The privileging of state-sanctioned, national languages, an allied predilection for cultural and linguistic homogeneity, and the consequent public delimiting of the use of other minoritized language varieties in the public doma…
Bilingual and Multilingual Education
Bilingual and Multilingual Education
Language Socialization
The problem with English(es) and linguistic (in)justice. Addressing the limits of liberal egalitarian accounts of language
Van Parijs’s Linguistic Justice for Europe and the World furthers a nascent examination of multilingualism within political philosophy, drawing on continental European contexts where multilingualism is the norm. Van Parijs argues, in effect for linguistic cosmopolitanism via English as the current world language, and this seems ostensibly to be a considerable improvement on ‘the untrammeled public monolingualism’ of Anglo-American political theor…
Contesting public monolingualism and diglossia
Contesting Metronormativity
Notes1 I use the term “renewed” deliberately here since, as I argue elsewhere, the recency of this turn towards multilingualism, at least in Western sociolinguistics, disguises the fact that non-Western scholars have long advocated the importance of examining multilingual speakers and their multilingual repertoires (see May, Citation2011, Citation2014c).2 In a still-central text, Held et al. (Citation1999), describe this era of globalization thus…
Language rights and language policy
Writing in the 1970s, the sociolinguist Kloss (1971, 1977) made the important and still-useful distinction between what he termed ‘tolerance-oriented' and ‘promotion-oriented' language rights (see
Language Socialization
Language rights
This article provides an overview of the current issues and challenges facing the nascent paradigm of minority language rights (MLR). It focuses on the theoretical points of dispute and tension with respect to MLR, as well as the challenges attendant upon their implementation in complex, multiethnic and multilingual contexts. The article acknowledges, but also responds to, key critiques of MLR to date. These include debates about linguistic moder…
Code and Habitus
This paper compares Bourdieu's notion of habitus with Bernstein's concept of code in an attempt to show how the apparent similarities mask more deeply seated differences in the way the concepts are conceived and used. We argue that Bernstein is following an essentially structuralist agenda of the kind that Bourdieu has set himself against. To this end, Bourdieu seeks to overcome the rigidities of 'rules' (which lie at the heart of the idea of Ber…
Indigenous Education
This introduction to a special issue of Comparative Education focuses on current issues and developments in \nboth the theory and practice of indigenous education from around the world
Rearticulating the Case for Minority Language Rights
While advocacy of minority language rights (MLR) has become well established in sociolinguistics, language policy and planning and the wider human rights literature, it has also come under increased criticism in recent times for a number of key limitations. In this paper, I address directly three current key criticisms of the MLR movement. The first is a perceived tendency towards essentialism in articulations of language rights. The second is th…
Negotiating the Multilingual Turn in SLA
To everything (Turn, Turn, Turn) There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn) ... The Byrds IN 2011, THE PROMINENT EUROPEAN political theorist, Van Parijs, published Linguistic justice for Europe and for the world (Van Parijs, 2011). The book was a culmination of over a decade's work on the prospects, and limits, of justice for linguistic minorities, within a normative political theory framework. It was greeted within political theory as an important dev…
Linguistic racism
This special issue of Ethnicities focuses on the phenomenon of linguistic racism. Linguistic racism constitutes the intersection of language, race/ism, and in/equality, as seen in racialized discourses on the relative status of languages and bi/multilingual language use, particularly as these are directed toward non-dominant language speakers. The theoretical framings underpinning the contributions in this issue draw on sociological discussions o…
Contesting public monolingualism and diglossia
Ethnonational Identities
The prominence of ethnonational identities and movements is of increasing interest and concern in today's world. But the nature and importance of these identities remain ill understood. Ethnonational
Uncommon Languages
This paper outlines some of the key complexities and controversies that surround the advocacy of minority language rights, most notably via the movement of Linguistic Human Rights (LHR). I argue that while the LHR movement has much to offer, particularly in articulating how minority languages might come to enjoy some of the privileges currently accorded to majority (national) languages, it must also address more adequately a number of key issues.…
Dominance of Anglo-American cultural representations in university English textbooks in China
A number of studies have reported the cultural representations in English textbooks in many contexts, especially those in Asia. However, these studies relied on a small data set and the findings suffered severe limitations. To overcome such shortcomings, we self-built a corpus that has 40 volumes/books of over one million words to examine the cultural constellations evident in 10 sets of university English textbooks in China. With such a large co…
Language Rights
A major theoretical contribution on language rights in one of the leading international journals on Human Rights, this article explores why the right to maintain one's language(s), without discrimination, remains peculiarly underrepresented and/or problematized as a key human right. Drawing on theoretical debates in political theory and international law, as well as the substantive empirical example of Catalonia, this article argues that language…
Understanding novice teachers’ perceived challenges and needs as a prerequisite for English curriculum innovation
Teaching English for specific purposes (ESP) is widely acknowledged as highly demanding for teachers. Currently in China itself, shifting the curriculum focus from General English to ESP in the provision of English language education is regarded as a curriculum innovation. And yet, scarcely any research has probed into the challenges facing novice ESP teachers, along with their related needs for institutional support, in order to implement such a…
Linguistic discrimination in higher education
As with many other countries, South Korea is increasingly ethnically and linguistically diverse – the result of changing patterns of migration and transmigration in a globalised world. However, despite these developments, South Korea retains a strong emphasis on public linguistic homogeneity in standard (Seoul-based) Korean, its national language, and related linguistic hierarchies of prestige that privilege this standard at the expense of other …
Language rights and language policy
Writing in the 1970s, the sociolinguist Kloss (1971, 1977) made the important and still-useful distinction between what he termed ‘tolerance-oriented' and ‘promotion-oriented' language rights (see
Language and Education Rights for Indigenous Peoples
In recent and ongoing debates on democracy and representation, indigenous peoples have been at the forefront in arguing for recognition of their rights to greater self-determination within modern nation-states. These arguments are based on their particular status as indigenous peoples, historically colonised against their will. Much of the focus of indigenous claims to self-determination has been upon language and education. This paper explores t…
Contesting Metronormativity
Notes1 I use the term “renewed” deliberately here since, as I argue elsewhere, the recency of this turn towards multilingualism, at least in Western sociolinguistics, disguises the fact that non-Western scholars have long advocated the importance of examining multilingual speakers and their multilingual repertoires (see May, Citation2011, Citation2014c).2 In a still-central text, Held et al. (Citation1999), describe this era of globalization thus…
New Zealand is “racist as f**k
A key feature of the confluence of modern nation-state formation and colonization has been the marginalization and denigration of minoritized language varieties, particularly Indigenous languages, over time. Indigenous languages have been actively proscribed in public language domains, such as education, leading to their inevitable shift and loss, in settler-colonial contexts worldwide. This process of linguistic hierarchization has long been rec…
Contesting hegemonic and monolithic constructions of language rights ‘discourse’
Sinfree Makoni's article provides a forceful argument on the potential (mis)appropriation of westernized discourses of human rights, and particularly language rights, in the often highly disparate
The Forum
This response discusses six key themes that emerge, either explicitly or implicitly, from Nancy Hornberger's exemplary analysis of the challenges facing indigenous language revitalization initiatives, particularly as they are currently expressed and implemented in three key indigenous language education contexts--Quechua in the South American Andes; Guarani in Paraguay and Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand. These themes include, first, the importance…
Developing a Māori language mathematics lexicon
Over the last 25 years, there has been significant modernisation and elaboration of the Māori language mathematics lexicon and register to support the teaching of (Western) mathematics as a component of Māori-medium schooling. These developments are situated within the wider Māori language revitalisation movement in Aotearoa/New Zealand, of which Māori-medium education is a central component. A feature of the initial development of a Māori mathem…
The Case for Antiracist Education
Barry Troyna has been writing about 'race', racism, and education for over a decade now. In that time, he has consistently, eloquently, and provocatively argued the case for antiracist education. His prolific output-including a number of collaborative publications with other antiracist proponents-sees him as one of the leading advocates of antiracism in the academic arena. 'Arena' is carefully chosen here because a central feature of much of Troy…
Making the difference for minority children
‘Language Policies Across the Curriculum’ (LPACs) have, in recent times, gained increasing prominence as curriculum innovations which can be implemented at the school level. The benefits attributed to LPACs most often concern the possibilities they engender for empowering minority students through the recognition and inclusion of minority languages within the curriculum. However, as with many previously heralded innovations, there is a noticeable…
Code and Habitus
This paper compares Bourdieu's notion of habitus with Bernstein's concept of code in an attempt to show how the apparent similarities mask more deeply seated differences in the way the concepts are conceived and used. We argue that Bernstein is following an essentially structuralist agenda of the kind that Bourdieu has set himself against. To this end, Bourdieu seeks to overcome the rigidities of 'rules' (which lie at the heart of the idea of Ber…
The Case for Antiracist Education
Barry Troyna has been writing about 'race', racism, and education for over a decade now. In that time, he has consistently, eloquently, and provocatively argued the case for antiracist education. His prolific output-including a number of collaborative publications with other antiracist proponents-sees him as one of the leading advocates of antiracism in the academic arena. 'Arena' is carefully chosen here because a central feature of much of Troy…
Just How Safe is Australia's Multilingual Language Policy? A Response to Michael Clyne
Language and Education Rights for Indigenous Peoples
In recent and ongoing debates on democracy and representation, indigenous peoples have been at the forefront in arguing for recognition of their rights to greater self-determination within modern nation-states. These arguments are based on their particular status as indigenous peoples, historically colonised against their will. Much of the focus of indigenous claims to self-determination has been upon language and education. This paper explores t…
Accommodating and Resisting Minority Language Policy
Any minority language policy must overcome two key difficulties if it is to be successfully implemented at state level. One is institutional - how can a minority language be legitimated and institutionalised in the public or civic realm when this has always been regarded previously as the preserve of the majority language? The other is attitudinal - how can a minority language gain sufficient support from majority language speakers for it to be a…
Uncommon Languages
This paper outlines some of the key complexities and controversies that surround the advocacy of minority language rights, most notably via the movement of Linguistic Human Rights (LHR). I argue that while the LHR movement has much to offer, particularly in articulating how minority languages might come to enjoy some of the privileges currently accorded to majority (national) languages, it must also address more adequately a number of key issues.…
Extending Ethnolinguistic Democracy in Europe
The recent establishment of political devolution in Scotland and Wales would appear to herald far greater national, and eventually regional autonomy within a British state long dominated by England. However, support for devolution in Wales remains, at best, ambivalent; in contrast to Scotland where devolution is far more strongly supported. Much of this can be explained by the fact that Wales, unlike Scotland, is almost indistinguishable from Eng…
Bret Harte
Journal Article Bret Harte: Opening the American Literary West and Maverick Heart: The Further Adventures of Zane Grey Get access Bret Harte: Opening the American Literary West. By Scharnhorst Gary. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. xvi + 256 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $29.95.)Maverick Heart: The Further Adventures of Zane Grey. By May Stephen J.. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000. xxv + 267 pp. Illustrations, appendix,…
Indigenous Rights and the Politics of Self-Determination
This chapter begins with a brief review of the debates surrounding the rights and standing of indigenous peoples within both national and international law, with particular emphasis on the issues surrounding the nascent but burgeoning politics of indigenous self-determination. Various supranational and national developments in relation to indigenous rights will be discussed, but particular attention will be paid to the Aotearoa/New Zealand contex…
Ethnicity, Nation and ‘Race’
Ethnicity, nationalism and racism are of increasing interest, and concern, to sociologists and political theorists alike. While the study of racism has perhaps had the longest, or at least the most consistent, academic history, the study of ethnicity, with its origins in anthropology, and the study of nationalism, have also established themselves in recent years as important fields of academic enquiry. Certainly, the burgeoning literature on thes…
Developing greater ethnolinguistic democracy in Europe
Article Developing greater ethnolinguistic democracy in Europe: minority language policies, nation-states, and the question of tolerability was published on December 31, 2002 in the journal Sociolinguistica (volume 16, issue 1)
Ethnonational Identities
The prominence of ethnonational identities and movements is of increasing interest and concern in today's world. But the nature and importance of these identities remain ill understood. Ethnonational
Rearticulating the Case for Minority Language Rights
While advocacy of minority language rights (MLR) has become well established in sociolinguistics, language policy and planning and the wider human rights literature, it has also come under increased criticism in recent times for a number of key limitations. In this paper, I address directly three current key criticisms of the MLR movement. The first is a perceived tendency towards essentialism in articulations of language rights. The second is th…
Indigenous Education
This introduction to a special issue of Comparative Education focuses on current issues and developments in \nboth the theory and practice of indigenous education from around the world
Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Minority Rights
This interdisciplinary collection addresses the position of minorities in democratic societies, with a particular focus on minority rights and recognition. For the first time, it brings together leading international authorities on ethnicity, nationalism and minority rights from both social and political theory, with the specific aim of fostering further debate between the disciplines. In their introduction, the editors explore the ways in which …
Māori-medium Education
This paper summarises the key issues and challenges that have emerged from a recent major report by the authors on Māori-medium education in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The discussion is situated within a wider international analysis of bilingual/immersion programmes, including heritage language programmes for indigenous peoples. Key issues explored in the paper include the negotiation of, and occasional tension between, the wider goals of indigenous M…
Bilingual/Immersion Education in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Introduction to a special issue of IJBEB, focusing on recent developments in bilingual/ \nimmersion education in Aotearoa/New Zealand, particularly, but not solely, \nMaori-medium education
Critical Multiculturalism
Language rights
This article provides an overview of the current issues and challenges facing the nascent paradigm of minority language rights (MLR). It focuses on the theoretical points of dispute and tension with respect to MLR, as well as the challenges attendant upon their implementation in complex, multiethnic and multilingual contexts. The article acknowledges, but also responds to, key critiques of MLR to date. These include debates about linguistic moder…
The Forum
This response discusses six key themes that emerge, either explicitly or implicitly, from Nancy Hornberger's exemplary analysis of the challenges facing indigenous language revitalization initiatives, particularly as they are currently expressed and implemented in three key indigenous language education contexts--Quechua in the South American Andes; Guarani in Paraguay and Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand. These themes include, first, the importance…
Encyclopedia of Language and Education
Can Schools Save Indigenous Languages?
This volume offers a close look at four cases of indigenous language revitalization: Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Saami in Scandinavia, Hñähñö in Mexico and Quechua and other indigenous languages in
Language Rights
Critical Multiculturalism
Introduction Multiculturalism has made less progress in science education compared with other curriculum areas, reflecting the abyss separating science and culture, and the adherence of school science to a traditional disciplinary view of the curriculum and the canonical science knowledge therein (Duschl, 1985). The nature of science knowledge, purposely aiming to exclude human dimensions such as aesthetics or history, precludes the options avail…
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